FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Latin
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Italian
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English
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Detailed explanation-1: -By choosing to write his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante decisively influenced the course of literary development. (He primarily used the Tuscan dialect, which would become standard literary Italian, but his vivid vocabulary ranged widely over many dialects and languages.)
Detailed explanation-2: -He wrote the Comedy in a language he called “Italian", in some sense an amalgamated literary language mostly based on the regional dialect of Tuscany, but with some elements of Latin and other regional dialects. He deliberately aimed to reach a readership throughout Italy including laymen, clergymen and other poets.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante is often credited with helping create the Italian language as he used the Tuscan vernacular of his time, rather than Latin, to write the Divine Comedy. As a result of Dante, Florentine Tuscan became the lingua franca of Italy and helped to establish Florence as the creative hub of the Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-4: -A contracted form of the Italian Durante, Dante shares its meaning of “steadfast” or “enduring” from the Latin root duras. Defined as “everlasting, ” it seems fitting that Dante’s famed namesake still holds the honor of producing one of the world’s greatest pieces of literature-The Divine Comedy.